Friday, September 5, 2008

Nobody ever brings anything small into a bar.

Harvey - 6.5/10. The first half has all the side-effects of a movie made out of a play. 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (which apparently stars the same awful actress) and 'Bringing Up Baby'-style miscommunications and careful missed connections, loud and obnoxious characters who can't shut up for the second it takes to further the plot. And then Jimmy Stewart, playing a more earnest version of the drunk bit from 'Philadelphia Story,' by just standing there, forces the movie to slow to his pace. Once it stops trying to play for laughs (when Harvey's not on screen), it becomes genuine and warming. The rabbit's no good, but the talking about the rabbit is the best part of it.

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